Top Fortean Books of 2009
Top Fortean Books of 2009 by Loren Coleman, Author, Mysterious America , The Copycat Effect , and other books. In terms of the best broadbased, general, fortean, twilight language, synchromystic books published or reprinted last year, this list encompasses my top picks for 2009: 1. Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior by Hilary Evans And Robert E. Bartholomew. The #1 Fortean book for 2009, hands down, has to be Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior . It is a massive, well-researched tome, being a large format paperbound book (8" by 11"), with a total of 765 pages of about 340 entries. The authors are the scholars Hilary Evans, a social historian, and Robert Bartholomew, a sociologist and specialist in collective behavior. 2. Obelisk: A History by Brian A. Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, and Benjamin Weiss. 3. Swamp Gas Times: My Two Decades on the UFO Beat by Patrick Huyghe. 4. An Illustrated Guide to The Lost Symbol ,...